Leadership for Engineers Workshop

Overview

This Leadership for Engineers Workshop helps to build ability for effectively leading engineering projects and teams. It’s a practical approach for leadership development, focusing on leadership fundamentals and engineering-specific challenges, with an immediately actionable development plan facilitated for each participant.

Whether your participants are experienced leaders or just getting started in an engineering role, this workshop can boost leadership effectiveness in all roles participating. Thousands of engineers and leaders at all levels have benefitted from this approach for over 20 years.

Flexible uses:

• Standard or customized training for a specific group in your company
• Tailored sessions to facilitate organizational goals and problem-solving
• Piloting to consider adding to your company’s learning program
• Licensing the content to include in your learning curriculum

Learning Objectives:

• Become more influential
• Improve ability to lead projects and teams
• Identify leadership development goals specific to your needs
• Gain support for ideas that will benefit your company
• Build rapport and trust with managers and peers
• Improve team and stakeholder communication

Format: Three 2-hour sessions (remote) or one full-day session (onsite)

Key Benefits:

• Facilitated Leadership Assessments & Leadership Development Plan
• Excel Planning Template
• Engineering Leadership Case Studies
• Pre-Session Work & Post-Session Follow-Up
• Experienced Engineering Leader Instructor

Contact us for scheduling, or book a call here to discuss your goals, timeline and questions.

Course Outline

Engineering Leadership Fundamentals

• What is leadership?
• Key leadership characteristics
• Influence without authority
• Overcoming leadership challenges unique to engineering environments
• Differences between leadership & management
• Leadership Assessment #1

Leadership Communication

• Forms of communication
• Becoming a better listener
• Listening exercise
• Engaging your audience
• Inspiring action
• Fulfilling diverse stakeholder needs
• Communication strategies
• Leadership Assessment #2

Building Rapport, Trust, Respect and Influence

• Opportunities for building rapport
• The art of influence
• Building rapport with senior leaders
• Getting support for new ideas
• Helping others to see your view
• Dealing with conflict
• 20 elements of trust & respect
• Leadership Assessment #3
• Maxwell’s 5 Levels of Leadership

Leadership Assessment and Development Plan

• Balancing leadership and management development
• Core leadership assessment
• Dedication to leadership development
• Leadership competency goals
• Prioritized leadership objectives

What’s included: Live instructor-led course, workshop materials, self-assessments, facilitated leadership development plan, Excel template, and follow-up guidance.

Professional Development Units: 8.0 PDUs

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